[Tolik]

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[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[mylife]

How about an “overcharge” button?

[jpl]

“There’s nothing special about Britain,” he reportedly said. “You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”

This is a diplomat? You've got to be kidding. I would have his ass for making such an offensive and insulting statement.

[King Moonracer]

Surely Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knows a few of her husband’s former staffers who can find a replacement.

But no slurpys...

[depressed in 06]

America needs a reset button for 4 November, 2008. We need an election lemon law.

[WoofDog123]

the article goes out of its way to not imply this was intentional, but the more I look at it, it seems almost certain it was.

Surely the WH protocol officer hasn’t been fired and a flunky brought in?

[GOPJ]

According to London’s Daily Telegraph, the Obama administration says the president was too tired.

Ummm, he plays basketball and works out - not too tired for that..

[Sig Sauer P220]

The U.S. needs a reset button on this past election.

[agere_contra]

Imagine an American candidate for president bashing the French on the stump.

Hmm, that would work.

Seriously, don't mean it. France is a better friend these days, thanks to the voters of France.

[Bernard]

If Gordon Brown wanted a royal reception and adulation, he should have slipped a bag of cash to the bag man on the way in; that’s how it works in Chicago.

[Briton]

I don’t think Britain wanted “special treatment”. I think we we wanted to be treated with a bit of respect.

Is this how Obama would treat his enemies?

[pgkdan]

It really is Barry Sotero’s Amateur Hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. He is incompetent, inept, clumsy and in over his head. All that said I wouldn’t be surprised if our afro-centric muslim in chief sisn’t deliberately snub Brown to prove to his eastern allies that it really is a new day in American - Terror sponsoring state relations.

[AlanGreenSpam]

...”the Obama administration says the president was too tired.”

Yah right, dude... Is the Obama regime referring to the Obama who tirelessly campaigned for months without respite?

Such a lie.

[TheDailyChange]

When friendship really matters, you show it!

Maybe Gordon Brown would have been better served if he would have brought Lord Nazir Ahmed, a Pakastani and Labour member of the House of Lords with him also.

http://www.thedailychange.com/obama-putz-3/

[Lexinom]

I’m sure President Obama is tired. How could he not be? The job is exhausting. Just look at the “before” and “after” photos of recent American presidents. There’s no fault or foul there, but we shouldn’t hear about it. We shouldn’t read about it, especially not during the first 100 days. This diplomatic faux pas reflects badly on all of us, and it’s a bit disconcerting.

I'm afraid to say this fatigue issue would not be an issue but for the shock of the rigors of the job. How can this be?

Not saying this just to throw dirt at the President, but all accounts indicate it is true: he has never had to work hard in his life - except perhaps at Harvard. Whether it was the status, a salve for his own insecurity, the fancy house, airplane, and perks, or the mistaken notion he would be a ruler rather than a president of a free constitutional republic -- he clearly underestimated the job.